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Pirates Tame Bobcats, Brace for Bearcats
From Associated Press Reports with Staff Contributions
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GREENVILLE An erratic offensive effort was
but a minor impediment to East Carolina as the Pirates applied a smothering
defense to handily dispatch of Division II foe Lees-McRae College 85-44 on
Wednesday night.
Lees-McRae (3-4) made only 17 of 62 shots
from the field (27.4%) and not a single LMC player scored in double figures
as ECU (6-6) hounded the Bobcats into 24 turnovers.
Erroyl Bing scored 17 points to lead a group
of five ECU players in double figures. Kenyatta Brown added 14, Fred Primus
notched 12 in an effective reserve role, Travis Holcomb-Faye tallied 11 and
Moussa Badiane chipped in 10.
Bing also led the Pirates in rebounding with
13, while Badiane blocked 7 shots to bring his total for the season to 34,
just 12 shy of the East Carolina single-season record.
Brandon Ehret scored eight points to lead
the Bobcats.
After an 8-8 tie with 13:10 left in the first half, the Pirates began to
assert themselves and seized control of the game with an 18-3 run. With Bing
and Brown supplying much of the offensive punch, ECU led by 19 going into
the locker room, 42-23.
Lees-McRae was unable to mount a serious challenge after the break as the
Pirates (6-6) sailed to a 50-25 advantage within the first five minutes.
In a season of streaks, the win was ECU's fourth straight after breaking
out of a losing six-game funk. Before the skid, the Pirates had opened their
season with impressive back-to-back wins over Rutgers and Northwestern.
Barring a remarkable
performance on both ends of the court, the current streak will be in dire
jeopardy of heading back in the other direction when East Carolina hosts a
more dangerous cat species on Saturday the Cincinnati Bearcats. It will
mark the Pirates' official on-court dive into the Conference USA basketball
wars.
Box Score
EAST CAROLINA 85,
LEES-MCRAE 44
LEES-MCRAE (3-4)
Silver 2-6 2-3 6, Burdsall 1-6 0-0 2, Thompson 3-8 0-0 6, Collins 1-3 1-2
3, Patterson 3-6 0-0 7, Ehret 2-5 2-2 8, Tollens 2-13 0-0 4, Champman 0-0
0-0 0, Marion 0-1 0-0 0, Zellers 0-3 0-0 0, Dehart 1-8 0-0 3, Standley 2-4
1-2 5. Totals 17-62 6-9 44.
EAST CAROLINA (6-6)
Brown 4-7 4-5 14, Bing 5-10 7-13 17, Badiane 4-7 2-4 10, Hawkins 1-7 2-4
4, Holcomb-Faye 3-6 2-2 11, Duckett 0-0 1-2 1, Primus 4-10 1-2 12, Foxx 0-2
0-0 0, Boddie 3-3 2-4 9, Moore 2-7 1-2 5, Twitty 1-1 0-0 2, Howard 0-0 0-0
0. Totals 27-60 22-38 85.
Halftime East Carolina 42-23.
3-Point goals Lees-McRae 4-28 (Ehret 2-5, Patterson 1-3, Dehart 1-7,
Tollens 0-6, Silver 0-2, Burdsall 0-2, Collins 0-1, Marion 0-1, Standley
0-1); East Carolina 9-26 (Holcomb-Faye 3-5, Primus 3-7, Brown 2-4, Boddie
1-1, Hawkins 0-5, Foxx 0-2, Bing 0-1, Moore 0-1).
Rebounds Lees-McRae 35 (Thompson 7); East Carolina 48 (Bing 13).
Assists Lees-McRae 8 (DeHart, Marion 2); East Carolina 19 (Holcomb-Faye
5).
Total fouls Lees-McRae 23, East Carolina 11.
Fouled out None.
Technicals East Carolina (Brown 1).
A 1,833.
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